A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present

This text covers Japanese history from approximately 1800 - the last decades of rule by the military lords of the Tokugawa family - to the start of the 21st century. It begins when a crisis-ridden political and social order intersected with fast emerging Euro-American power. It then analyzes Japan's modern revolution of the late 19th century: the rise of a modern nation-state structure, the evolution of a capitalist industrial society, and the surprising move from semi-colony of the west to imperialist power.